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Post by trumpetspride on Aug 6, 2007 16:55:18 GMT -5
^ Yeah, I'm with you. My fist may come in contact with many of my section members noses. I love um...but...
THis brings me to my own vent.
Stupid jerky boys in my section. They un-ceasingly mock me and I hate it. I work SO hard to be accepted. SO hard. It's like...if they were going to run a mile I'd have to run 10 miles just to get the same respect that they'd give eachother. And why? Probably because I'm a girl. That's it. I'm one of 2 girls in the section. I just want them to accept me as a friend, a section member, and an EQUAL. I can do anything they can do...they just don't give me the chance to try. I mean, maybe I can't beat them up like they can eachother but so what. I'm a lot smaller than some of them are.
With his annoying mocking today, I decided to give one of my section members a nasty nickname. (for the record, I have nicknames for 3 other of my section members that are mean that I would refer to them as behind their backs because of the stuff they did to me. One of them I don't call that anymore...he's regained himself in my book. But all of the names have the word a$$ in it. It sounds mean...but it's a way for me to get anger out so I don't cuss them out to their faces.) Yes, he has a nickname now. And I never did ANYTHING to him. He just teases/mocks me ALL THE FREAKIN TIME and it is so annoying because I don't know how to get him to stop and I think he has no idea how much it actually hurts me. None of them do.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 6, 2007 20:02:56 GMT -5
I'm going to keep it short and just say that at the moment, I hate my section. I also have to run sectionals tomorrow, and it ain't gonna be pretty. My fist might be the only solution, I swear. And another reason to vent? We got drill markers today, and guess what drill number I am? 69. Oh, and I have to work on Thursday, so I can't go see the live broadcast of DCI Quarterfinals. aww... poor saxgirl and her drill number. *giggles* *hug* for the missing of DCI Quarterfinals. I just found out that my band director is cutting practice short friday to broadcast Semifinals Livestream in the band hall. What a nerd.
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Post by Greenepony on Aug 6, 2007 21:18:01 GMT -5
I can't express how much I can't stand alchohol/drunken people ... *stamps and storms and screams*
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Post by Euphoniums PWN on Aug 6, 2007 22:51:00 GMT -5
Our entire trombone section is retarded. The section leader is an amazing player but has the maturity of a two year old, and the rest of them are incompetent idiots. There's this one tuba player that just about everybody in the band want to kick in the crotch, and we have this MASSIVE backwards march that I always get my foot stepped on during, or get lanced in the crotch with a flagpole. And that's just from band camp.
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 7, 2007 5:44:51 GMT -5
Our entire trombone section is retarded. The section leader is an amazing player but has the maturity of a two year old, and the rest of them are incompetent idiots. There's this one tuba player that just about everybody in the band want to kick in the crotch, and we have this MASSIVE backwards march that I always get my foot stepped on during, or get lanced in the crotch with a flagpole. And that's just from band camp. Oh dear. I can sympathize with everything you said, except I'm the trombone SL. At least I don't think I have the maturity of a two year old, but there are plenty of people in my band who do. I had a move in 9th grade where the saxes all marched backwards, and I would constantly get my foot stepped on. Not fun.
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Post by moe on Aug 7, 2007 20:13:44 GMT -5
band camp starts for leadership on monday. i still don't know if i'm excited about that. idk why either.
I can't see the Quarterfinals because we are going to PA on Thursday. (4-5 hr drive) The closest theater is only 15 miles from my grandparents house, but no, my mom won't take us.
Plus, today was the last day I could see one of my best friends until November, but no. I couldn't go.
I'm really getting more and more pissed at my mom lately. My dad makes the rules, but my mom enforces them like crazy because she is afraid my dad will find out that (GASP) I hang out with my friends or have one of them drive me anywhere. I'm sick of it.
You know that bottling up thing? Yeah, its getting old too. I need to stop that, I'm gonna make myself sick someday.
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Post by tinkerbell on Aug 7, 2007 20:25:54 GMT -5
I can't believe this. I was having just about the best week ever and today my life is complete and total ****. I wake up to my boyfriend calling, cancelling our plans. Then I go to band in the evening and we get our new music, in which I am resting for 36 measures. Then we had a sectional and I couldn't count off right because its one of my first times with my whole section and I've never led a sectional before. I could see everyone thinking what they'd been thinking all along "a junior shouldn't be our section leader; too bad the senior didn't get it." It was really upsetting. Then I got home and my parents started grilling me about my permit. I'm getting a car, and I keep failing my test so I cant drive yet. All my friends have their permit except me because I can't pass the test. I'm a straight A student and I can't pass the d*mn driver's test! I'm so jealous and it honestly hurts so much! I have to work alone tomorrow, and I'm really scared. I've never managed a shift all by myself and I'm extremely nervous. It's a big job and I honestly do not feel comfortable enough at it to do it by myself. But I guess I'll find out. I'm so scared. It's just everything seems so stressful and scary right now.
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Post by Lprdgecko on Aug 7, 2007 22:19:42 GMT -5
^*Hug*
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 8, 2007 5:55:58 GMT -5
I can't believe this. I was having just about the best week ever and today my life is complete and total ****. I wake up to my boyfriend calling, cancelling our plans. Then I go to band in the evening and we get our new music, in which I am resting for 36 measures. Then we had a sectional and I couldn't count off right because its one of my first times with my whole section and I've never led a sectional before. I could see everyone thinking what they'd been thinking all along "a junior shouldn't be our section leader; too bad the senior didn't get it." It was really upsetting. Then I got home and my parents started grilling me about my permit. I'm getting a car, and I keep failing my test so I cant drive yet. All my friends have their permit except me because I can't pass the test. I'm a straight A student and I can't pass the d*mn driver's test! I'm so jealous and it honestly hurts so much! I have to work alone tomorrow, and I'm really scared. I've never managed a shift all by myself and I'm extremely nervous. It's a big job and I honestly do not feel comfortable enough at it to do it by myself. But I guess I'll find out. I'm so scared. It's just everything seems so stressful and scary right now. Aww... I can sympathize with most of that. Don't feel bad about the permit test. I'm a straight A student and failed it the first time, and most of my straight A student friends failed their permit tests the first time or two also. Running sectionals alone can suck. I don't get any respect (heck, I'm not even asking for respect, I'm just asking for people to shut up for an hour and practice four songs) and I'm a senior... and the section leader. Just don't stress as much as I have - you'll lose sleep. Good luck!
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Post by Flutist Kes on Aug 8, 2007 15:16:33 GMT -5
AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!
I HAVE NO LOCKER THIS YEAR!
AGAIN!
(Yes, the font change was necessary to express my feelings.)
There is much more to this story. So, I got my lovely packet of information for school. There were some changes that I didn't quite like (to say lightly).
One, every class, including Seniors, has a two hour orientation before school starts. And I would totally skip, but during this two hour orientation (or, more probably, after, which is even more annoying), they have our school pictures. Obviously, as a Senior, I don't need to take one for yearbook, but I do need it for my school ID. It's just annoying that I have to waste my time at what is probably going to be a pointless orientation and wait in line for my picture. Because, no doubt, they'll do it alphabetically.
Two, I am signed on for Anatomy fourth hour next year. I'll deal with it though- I'm not going. I should be able to get my sched fixed by then. If I don't... I'm not going. I told them that I was Dual Enrolling. Apparently they need to get they're hearing checked.
Three, I, once again, HAVE NO LOCKER. How is this fair, at all? Last year I was ticked that I didn't get a locker, but I dealt with it because I thought that, as a Senior, I would definitely get one. Nope. I am going to spend my Senior year homeless, in a sense. And you know why I probably didn't get a locker? Because my last name starts with an "S." Yep, that's right. They asign lockers alphabetically. Which I am pretty sure is name discrimination. I don't know for sure if they do this, but I'm a pretty good guesser. Like, for instance, last year out of my friends, only people with last names starting with A-O got lockers. THIS IS NOT FAIR! At the very least, they should switch things up and give the people who didn't get lockers last year get one this year. HELLO! IT'S NOT THAT HARD! As a bonus to this insult, there are going to be lockers not used at all. Especially down the band hallway. Half those lockers aren't used, the least they could do is give band and art people those lockers!
If I can't find a locker (not my sister's) this year, I'm storing stuff in the counseler's office. In the middle of the floor. And when they tell me to move it, I'm going to ask very nicely where I could put it.
Plus, my sister got her sched today. Yes, she got a locker, which is great. (I think all Freshies should get lockers, and then Seniors, and then have a random drawing for Sophomores and Juniors. Or at least don't do both years alphabetically.) But her schedule is messed up. Granted, it's not as worse as it was last time. But she doesn't have a sixth hour now! How lame is that?You think that it would be noticable, missing a whole hour from someone's schedule.
You know, starting scheduling early was supposed to fix these problems, not make them worse.
Gosh, our counselers can be such... for lack of nicer words right now, idiotic gits!
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 8, 2007 17:20:20 GMT -5
^ Kes, that just... sucks. That's completely unfair. To me, that's one situation where I actually think seniority is acceptable. Seniors generally have the heaviest class load, and if you take electives, you'll have more projects/artwork/etc. Like me, for example. I've had a locker all four years, the same size too, but I keep losing more room as I progress through the art program because we do so many more projects. In Art I, I maybe had a paper or two in my locker, but this year in Art III, I've had everything from paintings to sculptures in my locker. Just go camp out in the counselor's office and refuse to move. I mean, if they do insist on doing it alphabetically, they should at least change the margin every year! Instead of A-O, do Q-Z one year or something!
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Post by Flutist Kes on Aug 8, 2007 17:53:27 GMT -5
Exactly! I guess one of the parents of a kid has been asking at the board meetings why this is still going on. Their kid hasn't had a locker since he started high school, and he's a Junior now.
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Post by Duel of the Flutes on Aug 8, 2007 18:33:03 GMT -5
^ I think I have the same locker as I did last year, which I don't particularly like. at least it's better than having no locker at all. if you're locker-less again, you're welcome (again) to my locker until you find your own.
but on my schedule, I don't have a history class, which wouldn't be a problem if next year I might be taking 2 science classes or computer apps, which I plan on doing. at least I got both band classes, though... I was worried they'd screw that up somehow.
and for that orientation... it's just dumb. probably because we got a new principal. I think I might just boycott that, and forget the whole yearbook picture thing. it says there's a makeup day for it anyways.
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Post by stickshifty on Aug 9, 2007 22:21:40 GMT -5
Ok... for some odd reason, my Lexar flash drive has stopped working on me. It worked fine yesterday, but now I try to put it into two different laptops and it doesn't work. I have so much crap on this little sucker that I need for school. I asked the computer geniuses on techsupport.com what to do, but so far no one has replied. Omg I so many hours on this thing that I don't want to disappear!!!!!!!!!! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Flutist Kes on Aug 10, 2007 16:21:02 GMT -5
^ I think I have the same locker as I did last year, which I don't particularly like. at least it's better than having no locker at all. if you're locker-less again, you're welcome (again) to my locker until you find your own. Thanks Duel. I shouldn't have as much junk as I did last year. (Especially that nasty AP Bio book.) Yeah, I've been talking with people about their lockers, and guess what? Everyone got the same locker and combination that they did last year. Um, and this is fair how?...
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